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Manteghi Bourjerdi (born 1964), also known as Sheikh Haron, was an ayatollah in Australia, originating from Iran. In 2014, he was responsible for the taking of several hostages in a Lindt Chocolate Cafe in Martin Place, Sydney.

Biography
Manteghi Bourjerdi was born in 1964 in Iran, and later moved to Bexley North, New South Wales, Australia, where he became an ayatollah teaching religion. Known as "Sheikh Haron", he led a hate mail campaign against the families of fallen Australian Army troops that had fought in the Afghanistan War, claiming that their sons were murderers. He chained himself to the courthouse in protest of his prosecution for the acts of offense through mail, and was arrested when he threatened to expand his hate mail to families of United Kingdom soldiers that had fallen during the War on Terror. In November 2013 he was arrested for stabbing Noleen Hayson Pal and setting her on fire, and in March 2014 he was arrested for the sexual abuse of a young girl. In December 2014, he was declared to be the man who took around 30 hostages in a Lindt Chocolate Cafe in Sydney, an event that began on 15 December.